Fruit-drier.



0. L. FURUSETH. FRUIT DRIER.

APPLIOATION FILED DEG. 8, 1913.-

1,093,044; Patented Apr. 14, 1914.

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COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH Co. WASHINGTON, n. C

O. L. PURUSETH.

FRUIT DRIER.

APPLIUATION FILED DBO. 8 1913.

Patented Apr. 14,1914.

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Mum/55555 INVENTOR ATTY.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH c0.. WASHINGTON. n c.

llNlT OLE L. FURUSETH, 0F BELMOND, IOWA.

FRUIT-DRIER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 14, 191st.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, OLE L. FURUsETH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Belmond, in the county of WVright and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in F ruit-Driers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in fruit driers and its object is to produce a device of this class comprising a plurality of drawers or cases retained in a rotary frame which is supported by suitable standards. By means of said rotary frame the cases may be inclined at any angle with the horizontal desired in order to permit the fruit therein to receive the rays of the sun fromany position of the latter in the firmament. Said drawers are also so secured to said circular frame as to be movable longitudinally independently of each other whereby the top drawer may be used to obscure a lower drawer from the suns rays when desired, as in the case of fruit that may be dried in the air away from the direct heat of the sun.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts to be hereinafter fully described in the following specification, pointed out in the claims and illustrated in the accompanying drawings which form a part of said specification and in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved fruit drier. Fig. 2 is a plan. Fig. 3 is a side elevation showing, in dotted lines, how the movable parts of a case may be extended. Fig. 4: is a section taken on line 4 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a section taken on line 55 of Fig. 2.

Like reference characters indicate corre sponding parts throughout the several views.

My fruit drier comprises a base 1 carry ing standards 2, 2 to which rotary circular frames 3, 3 are secured as at 4, 4. To re ceive the fruit I provide a plurality of cases 5, each of which contains a sliding drawer 6, provided with a sliding top screen 7 and a sliding bottom screen 8. Each drawer (3 may be extended with relation to the case 5 together with or independent of either of its screens 7, 8 and each drawer is further provided with a handle 9. Each case 5 is slidably secured to the rotary frame 3 by means of a plurality of bolts 10 which eX- tend through elongated slots 11 in said frame whereby each case is movable longi tudinally independently of any other case to a limited extent.

To help shut out the sunlight from a lower case by means of a relatively upper one the upper one may be moved longitudinally in the direction from which the suns rays are received and the extent of this movement will depend upon the position of the several bolts 10 in the rotary frame and the length of the elongated slots 11.

To tilt the several cases the rotary frames 3, 3 are moved upon their pivots at and locked in adjusted position by means of a pin 12 carried by one standard 2 for inser tion in one of the apertures 13 formed in the frame 3 in a circle having the said pivot as lts center.

\Vhat is claimed is 1. In a fruit drier, an adjustable rotary frame suitably supported, cases secured in said rotary frame provided with drawers and top and bottom screens carried by said drawers and movable with or independently thereof.

2. In a fruit drier, an adjustable rotary frame suitably supported, cases secured in said frame slidable longitudinally independently of each other, drawers in said cases and top and bottom screens carried by said drawers and movable with or independently thereof.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aiiixed my signature in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. OLE L. FURUSElTl-I.

l Vitnesses:

G. D. MARTIN, JOHN GREENLANDER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

